Meanings of sweeping generalisation in English

He was moved to a sweeping generalisation.

But a new global study has delivered some results that fly in the face of this sweeping generalisation.

This might be true in some cases of privately owned land but it can't be used as a sweeping generalisation.

This may seem like a sweeping generalisation, but then so is the claim that "exams are getting easier".

As a sweeping generalisation, it seems that fantasy is on the way out while realism seems to be on the way back.

The clanger came when he made the sweeping generalisation that people who shop at the affordable department store don't care about climate change.

To risk a sweeping generalisation, the first kind of censorship has diminished greatly in the democratic West, but the second is on the rise.

I know I'm on dodgy ground here, but I want to begin this week with a sweeping generalisation on the difference between the sexes.

This is a careless, unbalanced, sweeping generalisation which perpetuates a selective reading of a complex and controversial movement in a tragic period of Ireland's history.

Sweeping generalisation one: most Danish bands feature at least six or seven members.

Sweeping generalisation two: every Danish band seems to feature a female cello player.

These are sweeping generalisations, but across a population could place men at greater risk.

I mean, it … Sweeping generalisation one: most Danish bands feature at least six or seven members.

Instead, she thinks it is time to drop the more sweeping generalisations about male and female behaviour.

Vindication, at last, for people everywhere who make sweeping generalisations based on what people like to eat.

Sweeping generalisation three: the Danish music industry is peopled by some very smart cookies with some smashing ideas.